I have been programming since the age of 10 (30 years professionally), beginning in Basic, quickly moving to Pascal, ASIC, and many others. in 1991-2 I began working on the Internet. In 1995 I went to college to get a grasp on Windows programming where I mastered Visual Basic (3,4,5,6). I picked up PHP in and around 2001 and never looked back as it is so much more flexible then Perl, Coldfusion or ASP and require less resources.